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Wheellock Project
Henry Elwood: Obviously you have an excellent anvil in photo #3 above....full photo?- XVIIc Wheelock
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- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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Jamestown archaeological excavation of a pistol
1950DAVE you have a good point if at the time the well water was only a foot or two deep. Put in perspective, back in the day of happening...the well was 60+/- feet deep and well water could have been up to the half that level....as it was when the recent excavation occurred. The excavation...- XVIIc Wheelock
- Post #41
- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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Jamestown archaeological excavation of a pistol
Here is the Jamestown video discovery of the halberd bent into a hook...perhaps used trying to recover the pistol.- XVIIc Wheelock
- Post #39
- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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Be careful with Black Powder...You never know!
Ever think that it was..............................................................................attempted murder? Captain John Smith then President of the settlement, had an altercation with some of the settlers who then wanted to build a new fort down river due to chaos within the...- XVIIc Wheelock
- Post #32
- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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Jamestown archaeological excavation of a pistol
Jay your thoughts make perfect sense! Someone leaned over the well perhaps to retrieve the bucket, with the pistol as an arm length extension, it slipped and accidentally fell into the well and they tried to recover it (knowing the well was 60/70 feet deep) with the bent halberd as a hook...- XVIIc Wheelock
- Post #33
- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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Be careful with Black Powder...You never know!
Also, if not for his writings, we would have very little history of Jamestown!- XVIIc Wheelock
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- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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Be careful with Black Powder...You never know!
Bill you are correct...Captain John Smith was an amazing individual who I believe was the only one at that time who spoke Powhatan and saved the fort inhabitants from starvation many times over. His explorations and mapping were incredible. A real stand out in American history...!- XVIIc Wheelock
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- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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Jamestown archaeological excavation of a pistol
Very good point!- XVIIc Wheelock
- Post #29
- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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Be careful with Black Powder...You never know!
I am thinking. Rowing back 60 miles without an outboard motor....I almost cry when I burn my hand on a skillet! And a 2 month sea voyage? Tough son of a gun...he almost met his doom earlier when the Indians had him tied up and were beating his head against a large rock when Pocahontas saved...- XVIIc Wheelock
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- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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The ultra wealthy won the beauty and engineering contest...back in the day
TobJohn: How in the world did Charles V in the midst of battle, manipulate a wheelock with armored gloves and a pike in his hand??? Fantastic painting! NOTE: I am not insinuating you were there !- XVIIc Wheelock
- Post #9
- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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Be careful with Black Powder...You never know!
The range officer surely will put up a warning sign: "Baby Huey is now on the line!!"- XVIIc Wheelock
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- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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Be careful with Black Powder...You never know!
On page 228 of the great book "Savage Kingdom"and I quote: "Captain John Smith, rowed back to Jamestowne with his small company of men. That night, he decided to sleep on board the boat. As he lay on the deck, an autumn dew collection on the tarpaulin pulled over the shoulders, his gunpowder...- XVIIc Wheelock
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- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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Snaplock eventually a wheellock
Sam....go back to posts #84/85/86....if you had done your chores and hadn't been sitting the corner facing the wall with a dunce cap ...you may have gotten an allowance and would not have missed out on that chassepot!!!!! Whew!- XVIIc Wheelock
- Post #92
- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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Found at Jamestown...a complete matchlock-lock, most interesting!
- XVIIc Wheelock
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Wheellock Project
Flint you are absolutely correct! The art of building the best of the best top quality handmade wheelocks (or other fine locks) back in the day or today (as Henry Elwood is doing).. It is a very common practice... and SOP (for example the highest reputation wheelock providers in Poland)....to...- XVIIc Wheelock
- Post #84
- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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Help! with cleaning my musket
O.k. fellas...if its bore or surface metal rust/corrosion prevention and if you don't enjoy re-lubing your bore the following day or the next week or the next month or year, I have a suggestion, take it or leave it. I have been to Quantico several times, Sig factories both in the USA and...- XVIIc Wheelock
- Post #39
- Forum: Smoothbore
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Jamestown archaeological excavation of a pistol
Your thoughts on why it was found in the well? Hidden, stolen, Inoperable, irreparable, replaced by a more modern firearm, etc.?- XVIIc Wheelock
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- Forum: Pre-Flintlock
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Jamestown archaeological excavation of a pistol
The historians on the pre-flintlock part of this forum are beyond belief!!! I am constantly learning....Rickystl thank you!- XVIIc Wheelock
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- Forum: Pre-Flintlock